Thursday, August 17, 2017

We've already had some Halloween fun this week. Yesterday morning the dogs started barking and chasing a bat through the dining room! If I'm outside I'm ok if a bat flies by...... but in the house.....yeow! But you know the Big Guy is never without a plan! First he opens the front door while I toss him a tennis racket from the cellarway. Then he closes the French doors to try to confine it to the main hall while I barricade myself in the laundry room. Then he sits on the stairs while the dogs hopefully chase it out the open front door......but if it turns to head up the stairs ........ well you know what would happen!

We live in an area where a bat will find its way inside now and then. The rational side of my brain knows they are harmless and valuable critters......but the irrational side of me makes me hide in the laundry room. I am happy to report the little guy found the front door and escaped from a howling dachshund, two yapping poodles......and the Big Guy's racket!

We also had this visitor near our camp this week snacking on some berries along the road.......and the plan for dealing with this critter is simple........leave the area immediately!

We have a great inspiration photo and sketch this week at Fusion! I used both! Hope you join us!

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Aren't you just waiting for everything to slide off that shelf and fall into the sea of jumbled letters? I am! My father and I found always found humor in things slightly askew.....and I think that's how I like my friends too! I may have trouble deciding who gets this card!Like Cooper for instance.......just look at that smirk on his face! It's as if he is saying of course I wanted to cover myself in smiley faces........why else would I have rolled in Emma's sticker stack?!?

Jen Brum, my talented friend from the north, has designed a great sketch for us this week at Freshly Made Sketches! Hope you join us!

Saturday, August 12, 2017

The Big Guy is a very observant person.....me not so much. I go through life in my own little bubble and take Emma with me! This week Emma and I went to the Post Office and I let her pick out my stamps. She chose a page of Disney Villains with large, colorful images. We had a grand time talking about the villains and their movies. I may have even sung a verse or two of the Cruella DeVil song while we happily slapped stamps on my cards to mail. As I dropped the cards into the mail slot it dawned on me that I mailed two sympathy cards and three get well cards adorned with a crafty evil queen, a mean old stepmother, a shady conniving fox, a scary sea witch and a crazy croquet playing queen! So not appropriate........

I used the sketch from Cas(e) this Sketch and the cue word Safari from CASology to design my card today. And I guess it would be ok to use Scar from the Lion King on the envelope!

Thursday, August 10, 2017

A few years ago I was at the Stampin' Up! convention in Salt Lake City when my daughter called. She was very excited that she had just signed up to sell thirty-one products. I had no idea what they were. Well the ladies around me at the table filled me in right away and raved about their products - especially for holding or transporting stamping supplies! So I am now a convert and my craft room is filling with all sorts of handy 31 products to hold supplies! If you have a 31 product working hard in your craft room I would love to hear about it!

And then there are the lucky bags that get to go to the lake with us!

So this card is off to Erin to say Congrats on running a successful business and being promoted to Director! (Her recent convention reminded me a lot of our SU! gatherings!)

I used the sketch from Cas(e) this Sketch and Fabulous Flamingo for my card today - had to keep with the pink theme for 31!

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches is celebrating this week......300 Sketches! That is amazing! Let's see according to my math....which can be sketchy at times.....300 times 10 Design Team cards plus 300 times an average gallery of 75 equals over 25,000 cards! Yeow that is amazing! What is even more amazing is that no two were alike. And it never gets old - I love seeing what everyone creates! If you add your card to our gallery this week you get a chance to win all of the cards that the team designed this week! Hope you join us this week to help us celebrate 300!